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From Sidney Callahan: I voted for George W. Bush and I’m heartily sorry now. My support was motivated by prolife convictions, but so is my present dismay. I opted for Bush in 2000 because I thought he’d try to protect embryonic life in and out of the womb, and also support faith-based social initiatives. As…
Lots’ of grist
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awelborn
for the mill in the issue of Commonweal that’s currently online. First, a piece by Orthodox writer John Garvey, who always has interesting things to say: Here we are: back at polytheism. All these gods—mine, yours, hers, his, theirs—are the result of a combination of secularism gone to an extreme, combined with individualism and a…
Exempt?
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awelborn
The Spectator Online runs a piece about a couple of recent non-profit related issues If the New York Times and NPR have their way, Christians may soon long for the days of hungry lions and syphilitic Roman emperors. The Scylla and Charybdis of respectable opinion have all but begged the Internal Revenue Service to open…
Heroic priests
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awelborn
in Colombia Throughout Colombia’s 40-year-old conflict, the church has often been the only channel of communication between warring factions. In isolated regions, priests fill a void left by the absence of state authority. “The church is the only institution that all sides respect,” said the Rev. Luis Ritmel, whose parish is in the jungles of…
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